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Very nice!! I think its time to start putting some cash away.. Nothing like a day of fishing knowing that when I get a little worn out I can just plop my butt down and watch a little TV while waiting for the fish to get hungry again!

Will they allow any roaming or national locals or only the locals assigned to your home account?

This thing is a wow. Nice review

Early May is the timeframe, I have heard... I have not heard a cost on the unit though.

I didn't ask if you would have access to DNS locals, but the picture I showed in the review. Was from my local Chicago locals (so if you are still in the spotbeam range, you would at least get YOUR locals)

would love to be a beta for this...lol....anyway cant wait until it is ready to roll...may time frame so it will lbe around august anway just more time to save money and be nice to the wife....great job earl...

1 hour battery life seems a bit short. Most portable DVD players can get at least 2 hours, enough for a typical movie. As cool as this is, I'm really trying to see a "need" for this, but I don't think I can sell my wife on it.

1 hour battery life seems a bit short. Most portable DVD players can get at least 2 hours, enough for a typical movie. As cool as this is, I'm really trying to see a "need" for this, but I don't think I can sell my wife on it.

1 hour battery life seems a bit short. Most portable DVD players can get at least 2 hours, enough for a typical movie. As cool as this is, I'm really trying to see a "need" for this, but I don't think I can sell my wife on it.

Most portable DVD Players are also not powering a 17" LCD...And a SAT Receiver/Dish assembly

It is a little short, but they are going to have replacement batteries.

For "camping" trips... that you are going to bring this, then a small portable generator maybe a good idea.

For the "tailgater"... The car battery should be good (provided you remember to recharge the car battery for a few minutes)

Isn't this almost obsolete before it is out? Not being able to receive locals let alone mpeg-4 channels would be a big downside to this unit. I know the shut down of the mpeg-2 system is a ways off, but why would someone pay $1000 for something that you know does not access a large portion of the services offered by DTV?

I would think tailgates would be a major target for this unit and not having access to locals and network coverage would be a big turnoff.

Isn't this almost obsolete before it is out? Not being able to receive locals let alone mpeg-4 channels would be a big downside to this unit. I know the shut down of the mpeg-2 system is a ways off, but why would someone pay $1000 for something that you know does not access a large portion of the services offered by DTV?

I would think tailgates would be a major target for this unit and not having access to locals and network coverage would be a big turnoff.

Are there any plans to allow reception of locals?

Mike

MPEG-2 SD reception elimination is so far off... you would be lucky if ANY of the equipment we have today is still functioning by then... You are looking at probalby 10 years IMHO, before SD-MPEG-2 is converted.

While I understand the desire for HD... I don't think that is really a big thing while you are in the "woods"... or even at a "personal" tailgate. It would be cool but...

Also the battery life... 1 hour, for this unit... would be probably about 20 minutes for an HD

Car batteries shouldn't be used. Every deep discharge of a normal car battery
damages it. Get a Deep Cycle Marine battery for your inverters to run this... they
can recharge near 100% without damage even after a deep discharge.

As for generators, get the Honda models... don't be that guy with the loud, stinky,
cheap generator parking next to everyone.

As for tailgating, I'll take my usual setup instead even if it means lugging the dish,
pole, and tripod since I have a 24" LCD HDTV hooked up to the receiver instead.

But for small trips like camping where TV isn't as big of a deal, this could be a cool
thing given how portable and small it is compared to lugging everything else along.